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defense mechanisms
| Questions |
Answers |
| .Inability to simultaneously experience the cognitive and affective components of a situation |
isolation |
| Rationalizing and making generalizations about anxiety provoking issues to minimize pain and anxiety |
intellectualization |
| attributing a painful thought or idea to another person |
projection |
| attempting to provide a logical and rational explanation for something to avoid guilt or shame |
rationalization |
| replacing of some painful or negative event with the complete opposite |
reaction formation |
| losing of some aspect of development already achieved due to undue anxiety causing a person to revert to a previously attained stage or lower level of adaptation. |
regression |
| pushing a negative or painful image, thought, or odea out of consciousness to avoid the associated pain. This is the primary defense mechanism |
repression |
